Rio Grande Marathon
Today was the Rio Grande Marathon and our team did great. I'm a little tired now but here are the highlights. The Bobbsey twins -our youngest members- each took third in their age category which is pretty amazing considering all the competition. Here's a photo of them. Aren't they cute? They're so adorable.
Melissa (the team mentor) and I are old and slow. I finished at 2:36 for the half and she did something akin to that but don't recall exactly what it was. Here's a photo of me, followed by Melissa.
My broken ribs are pretty much okay. I keep flogging the injury it in the hopes it'll gain me some sympathy and people will donate to sponsor me in the marathon :).
Below is a picture of our coach Kris. In response to my repeated protests of her poor math skills (can't even measure a mile, c'mon!), she points to her handy dandy GPS but as you can see from the photo below, the GPS is on the fritz.
Whenever I say she's got problems with math and mensuration -the mileage she maps out is something else- she cops a sloppy defense claiming an advanced math degree and a background in statistics but I think we all know better. It's all lies, sheer lies. I mean, the statistics background just nails it for me because there's only three kinds of lies. Lies, damn lies and statistics. And no high tech GPS will cover for it. The proof is in the photo above. The display tells it all so it's not just me and that small piece of intestine I coughed up on our last 12 mile run.
I do not like the movable type service available on yahoo. It bites, big time. This entry isn't formatted the way it's supposed to be and if I hadn't have been running MT for well over a year and a half on another server, I wouldn't know it wasn't my error. Yahoo is running windows servers and MT prefers Linux.
Melissa (the team mentor) and I are old and slow. I finished at 2:36 for the half and she did something akin to that but don't recall exactly what it was. Here's a photo of me, followed by Melissa.
My broken ribs are pretty much okay. I keep flogging the injury it in the hopes it'll gain me some sympathy and people will donate to sponsor me in the marathon :).
Below is a picture of our coach Kris. In response to my repeated protests of her poor math skills (can't even measure a mile, c'mon!), she points to her handy dandy GPS but as you can see from the photo below, the GPS is on the fritz.
Whenever I say she's got problems with math and mensuration -the mileage she maps out is something else- she cops a sloppy defense claiming an advanced math degree and a background in statistics but I think we all know better. It's all lies, sheer lies. I mean, the statistics background just nails it for me because there's only three kinds of lies. Lies, damn lies and statistics. And no high tech GPS will cover for it. The proof is in the photo above. The display tells it all so it's not just me and that small piece of intestine I coughed up on our last 12 mile run.
I do not like the movable type service available on yahoo. It bites, big time. This entry isn't formatted the way it's supposed to be and if I hadn't have been running MT for well over a year and a half on another server, I wouldn't know it wasn't my error. Yahoo is running windows servers and MT prefers Linux.
Comments
great job! i am in awe of anyone who runs (i can't -- it's agony on my knee). my brother just ran the chicago marathon and said it was amazing. good luck in january!
Posted by: mamafitz | October 30, 2006 02:46 PM